Bob Collins
The only thing missing from this photo is Charlton Heston.
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Archives for August 2010
Are you tired of the endless babble over ads in the gubernatorial campaign? Fine, let’s focus on some important commercial advertising.
The aerial campfire, how birth order affects you, Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves, and the fastest pastor in Redwood Falls.
‘She never knew how beautiful she was’
The myth of climate change myths
Long-time readers of News Cut know that catching a foul ball at a baseball game has been on my ‘bucket list’ for decades. But it apparently wasn’t on this guy’s. He ducked out of the way and let his “girlfriend” take the hit at a game in Houston recently, earning him an honored place as an Internet viral video.
Al Franken can’t catch a break, county fair photos, in search of typos, the blind football championships, and feeding the homeless because your mother said to.
Bee populations are declining, and mosquito populations are exploding. And therein lies a problem.
Remember the warm and fuzzy TV ad from Sen. John McCain on the evening Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president at the party’s convention in Denver? The Minnesota Republican Party is not reading the John McCain playbook. It unveiled its first ad against Mark Dayton today. It has a certain familiarity to it…
Like some of the pictures we saw from the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil disaster, good photography can make bad news beautiful.
Editorial cartoonists generally get a higher degree of leniency than other commentators on the nation’s editorial pages. But Mike Lester of the Rome (Georgia) News Tribune pushes the envelope on the issue of the mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
Lessons from primary day (Five by 8: 8/11/10)